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Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension
An anonymous reader writes "While doing a weekly scrub of my Windows systems, which includes checking for driver updates and running virus scans, I found Firefox notifying me of a new add-on. It's labelled 'Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant,' and it 'Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET versions to the web server.' The add-on could not be uninstalled in the usual way. A little Net searching turned up a number of sites offering advice on getting rid of the unrequested add-on." The unasked-for extension has been hitchhiking along with updates to Visual Studio, and perhaps other products that depend on .NET, since August. It appears to have gone wider recently, coming in with updates to XP SP3.
Remember Sony?
Yes. Trying not to.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
They are gathering intelligence on how to build on of these "web browsers".
Never forget.
Forgetting is key to getting caught again. You can only catch a cat in the same trap once.
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Which of those was the good thing?
The only appropriate response would be for Mozilla to automatically refuse it from Firefox with the next Firefox update.
I have a better idea, let Firefox add an "extension" to Microsoft Office that improves its usability by downloading and starting OpenOffice when the user starts MS Office.
you came here for software? I'm sorry, this is Abuse!